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Curriculum Vitae of Peter King Date of Revision 28/04/2020 Curriculum vitae of Peter King A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1. PERSONAL Peter King Department of Philosophy 95 Humberside Avenue The University of Toronto Toronto ON M6P 1J9 170 St. George Street, #521 (416)-760-7848 Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 [email protected] 2. DEGREES PhD, 1982, Princeton University. Thesis: “Peter Abelard and the Problem of Universals in the Twelfth Century” Supervisor: Michael Frede 3. EMPLOYMENT Department of Philosophy (75%); Centre for Mediaeval Studies (25%) Professor of Philosophy and of Mediaeval Studies, from 1 July 2003 Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University 2002-2003 Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University 1991-2002 Adjunct Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University 1992-2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy,The Ohio State University 1989-1991 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh 1982-1989 Adjunct Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University 1981-1982 4. HONOURS 5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES American Philosophical Association; Canadian Philosophical Association; Societé intenationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale; Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. B. ACADEMIC HISTORY 6B. Research Awards SSHRC: 01 April 2006 to 31 March 2010 : $57,148 SSHRC: 01 April 2011 to 31 March 2014: $31,276 SSHRC: 01 April 2016 to 31 March 2022: $117,000 (extended by one year) C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK 7A. Articles in Refereed Publications “Anselm's Intentional Argument” in History of Philosophy Quarterly1 (1984), 147-166. “Jean Buridan's Philosophy of Science” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 18 (1987), 109-132. “Towards a Theory of the General Will” in History of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1987), 33-51. “Duns Scotus on the Common Nature and the Individual Differentia”' in Philosophical Topics 20 (1992), 50-76. “Abelard's Intentionalist Ethics” in The Modern Schoolman 72 (1995), 213-232. “From intellectus uerus / falsus to the dictum propositionis: The Semantics of Peter Abelard and His Circle" [Klaus Jacobi, Christian Strub, Peter King], in Vivarium 34.1 (1996), 15-40. “Augustine on the Impossibility of Teaching” in Metaphilosophy 29.3 (1998), 179-195. “The Problem of Individuation in the Middle Ages” in Theoria 66 (2000), 159-184. “Augustine's Encounter with Neoplatonism” in The Modern Schoolman 82 (2005), 213-226. “Duns Scotus on Singular Essences” in Medioevo 30 (2005), 111-137. “Le rôle de concepts selon Ockham” in Philosophiques 32 (2005), 435-447. “Abelard on Mental Language” in The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2007), 169-187. “Abelard's Answers to Porphyry” forthcoming in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale. “Damaged Goods: Human Nature and Original Sin” in Faith and Philosophy 24 (2007), 247-267. “Boethius: The First of the Scholastics” in Carmina philosophiae 16 (2007), 23-50. “The Inner Cathedral: Mental Architecture in High Scholasticism” in Vivarium 46 (2008), 253-274. “Augustine on Testimony” [with Nathan Ballantyne], in Canadian Journal of Philosophy. “Mediaeval Intentionality and Pseudo-Intentionality” in Quaestio 10 (2010), 25-44. “Boethius's Anti-Realist Arguments” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40 (2011), 381-401. “Augustine’s Trinitarian Examples” in Medioevo 37 (2012): 83-106. “Boethius on the Problem of Desert” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 1 (2013), 1-22. “Pseudo-Joscelin: Treatise on Genera and Species” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 2 (2014), 104-210. “Marguerite Porete and Godfrey of Fontaines: Detachable Will, Discardable Virtue, Transformative Love” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 6 (2018), 168-188. 7B. Books and/or Chapters in Refereed publications “Mediaeval Thought-Experiments: The Metamethodology of Mediaeval Science” in Thought-Experiments in Science and Philosophy, edited by Gerry Massey and Tamara Horowitz, Rowman & Littlefield 1991, 43--64. “Bonaventure's Theory of Individuation” in Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650, edited by Jorge Gracia, SUNY Press 1994, 141—172. “Jean Buridan's Theory of Individuation” in Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650, edited by Jorge Gracia, SUNY Press 1994, 397--430. “Scholasticism and the Philosophy of Mind: The Failure of Aristotelian Psychology" in Scientific Failure, edited by Tamara Horowitz and Allen I. Janis, Rowman & Littlefield 1994, 109-138. “Duns Scotus on the Reality of Self-Change” in Self-Motion From Aristotle to Newton, edited by Mary-Louise Gill and Jim Lennox, Princeton University Press 1994, 227-290. “Thomas Hobbes's Children” in The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition, edited by Susan M. Turner and Gareth B. Matthews, University of Rochester Press 1998, 65-83. “Aquinas on the Passions” in Aquinas's Moral Theory, edited by Scott MacDonald and Eleonore Stump, Cornell University Press 1999, 101-132. “John Buridan's Solution to the Problem of Universals” in The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, edited by J.~M.~M.~H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko, E. J. Brill 2001, 1-27. “Consequence as Inference: Mediaeval Proof Theory 1300-1350” in Medieval Formal Logic: Obligations, Insolubles, and Consequences, edited by Mikko Yrjonsuuri, The New Synthese Historical Library 49: Kluwer Academic Press 2001, 117-145. “Duns Scotus on Possibilities, Powers, and the Possible” in Potentialitat und Possibilitat: Modalaussagen in der Geschichte der Metaphysik, eds. Thomas Buchheim, C. H. Kneepkens, and Kuno Lorenz. Fromann-Holzboog: Stuttgart--Bad Canstatt 2001, 175-199. “Late Scholastic Theories of the Passions: Controversies in the Thomist Tradition” in Emotions and Choice from Boethius to Descartes. Eds. Henrik Lagerlund and Mikko Yrjonsuuri. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 1. Kluwer 2002, 229-258. “Rethinking Representation in the Middle Ages” in Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy, edited by Henrik Lagerlund, Ashgate Press 2005, 83-102. “Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Mediaeval?” in Forming the Mind, edited by Henrik Lagerlund, Springer- Verlag 2007: 187-205. “Ockham's Summa logicae” in Central Works of Philosophy Vol. 1, edited by John Shand, Acumen Publishing 2005, 242-269. “Thinking About Things: Singular Thought in the Middle Ages” forthcoming in Intentionality, Cognition, and Representation in the Middle Ages, edited by Gyula Klima (Fordham University Press 2007). “Emotions in Medieval Thought” in The Oxford Handbook of the Emotions, edited by Peter Goldie (Oxford University Press 2010). “Augustine and Anselm on Angelic Sin” in A Companion to Angels and Medieval Philosophy, edited by Tobias Hoffmann. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill 2012, 261-281. “Scotus on Anselm: The Two-Wills Theory” in Archa Verbi Subsidia 5. Johannes Duns Scotus 1308-2008: Investigations into his Philosophy. Edited by Ludger Honnefelder, Hannes Mohle, Andreas Speer, Theo Kobusch, Susana Bullido Del Barrio. Munster: Aschendorff 2011, 359-378. “Augustine’s Trinitarian Semantics” in Le *De Trinitate* de Saint Augustin, edited by Emmanuel Bermon and Gerard O'Daly. Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes: Paris 2012, 123-135. “Body and Soul” in The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy, edited by John Marenbon. Oxford University Press 2012: 505-524. “Augustine’s Anti-Platonic Ascents” in Augustine’s Confessions, edited by Bill Mann. Oxford University Press 2015. “Augustine on Evil” in Evil, edited by Andrew Chignell. The Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series. Oxford University Press 2019, Chapter 6. “Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game” in Games, Sports, and Play, edited by Tom Hurka. Oxford University Press 2019: 33-53. “Abelard” in the on-line Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abelard). Peter King, Jean Buridan's Philosophy of Logic. Synthese Historical Library Vol. 26, Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1985. Peter King, Augustine. Against the Academicians, The Teacher, and Selections From Other Writings. Hackett Publishing Company 1995. Peter King, Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings. Cambridge University Press 2010. Peter King, “Aquinas: On Being and Essence” in The Hackett Aquinas: Basic Works, edited by Jeff Hause and Robert Pasnau, Hackett Publishing Company 2014, 14-34. Peter King, Corpus christianorum series latina (continuatio mediaevalis) 206A. Turnhout: Brepols 2016. 8B. Books and/or Chapters in Books of Non-Refereed Publications “Ockham's Ethical Theory” in The Cambridge Companion to William of Ockham, edited by Paul Spade, Cambridge University Press 1999, 227-244. “Duns Scotus's Metaphysics” in The Cambridge Companion to John Duns Scotus, edited by Thomas Williams, Cambridge University Press 2003, 15-68. “The Metaphysics of Peter Abelard” in The Cambridge Companion to Peter Abelard, edited by Jeff Brower and Kevin Guilfoy, Cambridge University Press 2004, 65-125. “Anselm's Philosophy of Language” in The Cambridge Companion to Ansem, edited by Brian Leftow and Brian Davies, Cambridge University Press 2004, 84-110. “Anselm” in The Encycopaedia of Philosophy (second edition). “Augustine on Knowledge” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (second edition), edited by Eleonore Stump, Cambridge University Press. “Augustine
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